SPORT AMD PASTIME. The Turf.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 50, 27 August 1904, Page 14

SPORT AMD PASTIME. The Turf.

[By Lochibi..]

RACING FIXTURES. September I— Amberley Stcoplechase Meeting. , _ . September 7— South Canterbury Spring fleeting. ■ _ , September 7 and B— Australian Jockey - Club's Spring Meeting. . September 15 and 16— Ashburton County Meeting. September 17, 21, and 24— Avondalo Spring Meeting. ' , September 21 and 22-Rangitikei Spring Meeting. Medallitw,' the winner of the Canter- . bury Grand National Hurdle Race, was > cold at auction four years ago for seventeen .guineas. .^rtQther' episode in tho Petrovna-Bag-pipe» case is reported from Christchurch. .. It ' is stated that a protest has been entered against the stakes in the Cri- " terion Handicap being paid to Mr. Jeffs, ond tho ground that Petrovna was nob properly nominated. Lndy Lillian is still under treatment. Windwhistlo (Clanranald— Weatherej'e) is to visit Birkenhoad (Onne— Tragedy) at Hastings. ' H&wkes Bay speculators had a good win over Mahutonga's victory in the Canterbury Cup. Tho totalisator investments ab tho Canterbury meeting last week showed a falling off of £2282 as compared with tha previous year. Spalpeen, of whom much was expected, ran very disappointingly in tho Final Hurdle Race at Riccarton on Saturday. Mr. Friedlander's mare Countces of Kolmar has produced a. colt foal to tho English sire Pilgrim's Progress. Mahutonga- has earned a- 71b penalty by his vdctory in the Canterbury Winter Cup, bringing Ws weight up to 7.0. Tho Quilt gelding has been backed , lately to •win the big race. One effect of the decision in the Bagpipes— Petrovna case is to p]«ee Sir Georgo Clifford at tho head of the winning owner* for tho laac season with £5960 ta his credit, Mr. Stead being second with £6825. If the protest' entered against Petrovna on the ground that, ehe was wrongly nominated' is upheld, Sir George Clifford's total will be swelled to £6240, his horse Golden Vein having finished third ia the Criterion Handicap.' At Christchurch on Monday • the following horoe/* wore sold by publio auctibn:—Lady Soxilt, by' Soult— -Hipporina, » Mr. W. T. Horiott, 71gs. ; Wonderful, by. Pcrkin WaVbcck EL.— Little Wonder, Mr. S. G. I»der,d 41gs ; Force, by Bay King—, Mr. S. G. Inder,. 35ga. ; Hqfwera, by Gipsy King— 'Vacillatiou, Mr. Swale, 47gs. ; vikjng, by Childe HaroH—Violefcta, Mr. Williams, 50ga. Rothachild •was parsed ab 410gs, and several ' other horses also failed to find buyers. The following is a- list of the entries for tho Spring Stakes, to bo tun on the opening day of the A.J.C. Spring Mooting on 10th September: — Cruciform, Gladsome, Sweet Nell, Abundance, Lord Cardigan, Emir, Patronage, Martian, St. Modan, Zythos, lan, Raeburn, Playaway, Long Tom, Ironmould, Sarto, Fitz-Graf-ton, Fairy States. The New Zealand-owned horses Slow Tom and Dingo 'figure amongst the entrants for the jumping events to be decided at the A.J.O. Spring Meeting. A private cablegram has been received in Christchurch to the effect that Glad•oino won -.the Three, and Four-year-olds Handicap at Fleming ton on Saturday. She started at evens and won easily. Mite Button, of Canterbury, enjoy* the distinction of being perhaps the only female horse-trainer in New Zealand. She entered the profession some years ago (says tho Christchurch correspondent of the Dunedin Star) as a trainer of trotters, but later she discarded this branch ia favour of tho senior one. It was she who discovered the merits of Hie ' Grand National winner Slow Tom, and she prepared the son. of St. Ivee for more than one victory prior to selling him to his present owner. She trained Rattlesnake, the winner of the Tally-ho-Pteto on tho first day of tlie Grand National meetinr. Messrs. Pollock and Mark are the only two nominations 'for the two North Island vacancies on tho new Board of the - JSTew Zealand Trotting Association. For the South Island there are ten nominations for seven, seats, viz.. Messrs. P. Selag, B. CkrkSDw, D. M'Lean, .A. Myers, W. G. Qwxrard, C. S. Howell, ' E. A. Archer, W. H. Denton, T. Maw, and W. Hayward. The following is the list of winning .. owhcts ab the Canterbury Jockey Club's Grand National meeting:— o. Machell, £700; G. B. Oman, £500; O. W. Wollis, £400 ; ,J. Reginald,' £320 ; Ellis ■Bros., £270;' P. R. M'Kensio, £225; -J. Jeffs, £220 ; G. Murray-Aynsley, £190; W. Hickey, £150; J. H. Prosser, £130 j Sir Goo. Clifford, £115; F. M'Govern, £115; S. Brown, £100; J. MibcheW, £100; R. Solomon, £100; T. Kett, £95; A. G. Holmes, £75 j J. ' M. Kerr, £75; H. MTLeon, £75; L. P. aaid O. R. Vallance, £75; W. Smarb, £H6; F. Wetson, £7B; Mrs. P. Herman. £60 ; M'Manemin and Davis, £60 ; J. E. Buchanan, £50; Miss I, Button, £60, R. M'Donald, £50; W. O. Rutherford, £50; Efwortby Bros., £40; A. Cbanqson, £35; H. STManaway, £30; J). Thomson, £25; O. P. Mucray-Ayne-ley, £20 ; J. C. K. Grigg, £20 j A. G. M'DonaW;, £20, Sir W. R. Russell, £20; T. Sheenan, ££0; W. H. P. Woodroffo, £20, Miss M^rray-Aynsloy, £15; A. Dale, £10; M. GrantJey, £10 j R,. Haimon, £5; W. J. Jorgensen, £5 ; P. Neagle, £6; G. Snow, £5; H. Vallance, £5; W. J. Wood, £5. An unusual spectacle waa witnessed last Sunday (soya the Dargavillo Times) in the Rev. M. Warabone driving an etratio and rather un*ra,etable horse in liis buggy. It appears thflt the rev. eentlemwnfs horse had gone lame, and ho Sad hired an animal from the livery and bait stables. Ho found a certain amount of difficulty in harnessing his charge, and its "antics -when encumbered with harness were rather embarrassing. However, Mr. Wansbone, who all his life has ibeen used to horses, drove down through Dargaville, but thought ib wise to enquire at the stable what caused the peeuiinritiwi of his steed. On beholding the parson, the face of Mr. Jack Williams was a picture. For a moment he was etaggered, and then hastily proceeded to unharness and furnish a fresh bom. Nothing serious had occurred, only that the horse harnessed and driven by Mr. Wansbone was tho well-known bhoroughbred racer Ido, which had never before bee in harness, and had been given in mistake for a buggy horse. With a deep • sigh of regret Ida was consigned, to her loose stall, «ul Mr. Williams is still pondering oTcr what might have happened, and wondering why it didn b. The New Zealand horse Fakir (owned by Mrs. Abbot, of Wanganui, who is ab present on a visit bo the Rand) scored his first win in that country at GeraiinBton (South Africa) on 11th July. It ■was a hurdle race, in which he quite outclassed his three opponents, and odds of 2 to 1 were laid on his ability to win. The. odds were at no time in doubt. Ab the same meeting the New Zealand bred Ukase, by Sbopniak, carrying 10.0, easily won the Pony Purse. Including bis victory a few weeks ago Jn the LujjffieW Park (England) Plate,

Rock Sand had taken part in 18 races, 15 of which he won, and earned 38,238 soys, in stakes. Though big, the sum staled is by no means a record, for Isinglass won eleven races of tho value, of 57,465 soys, Donovan 18 races and 55,153 Boys, and Flying Fox 9 races and 40,095 soys. Among other big winners in 10nj{land aro Ayrshire, 11 races and 35,915 soys, nnd Veroimmon, La Flccho, Onne, and St. Frusquin each won upwards of 32,000 soys. .Arrangements havo been made for tho Melbourne Cup winner, Tho Victory, who is on his way to England, to do stud duty at Strauan Station Farm, Ireland. London Sportsman describes Tho Victory as "the greatest lU'ing descendant of the famous Fisherman," nnd Bays Ireland is fortunate in obtaining him. The Hon. G. M'Lean's three-year-old filly Tsa, by Stopniak— Mist, died tho other dny from disease of the liver. When opened after death it was found that the liver had swollen so abnormally as to weigh close on 401b. Tho deceased filly was sistor to Vladimir. Airly, tho winner of the Caulfield' Grand National Steeplechase, is a soven-yoar-old bay gelding by Swivellcr from Geometry,- a mare bred in 1890 by tho late Mr. Tom Manifold, by Euclid from Gascony, by Tim Whifller (imp.) from Gasworks, by Fisherman from Gaslight (imp.), by Sir Hercules, and is tho property of tho Camperdown sportsmen Messrs. J. C. aud E. Manifold, for whom he is trained nt Flcmington by H. Harrison. Airly's first appearance on a racecourso was in a hurdle race' at Camperdown in Jnnuary, 1902, when ho was unplaced, the race being won by Messrs. Manifold's Holkai\ He was then put by, and his next appearance wus last June, in tho Toolnmbool Hurdle Race, at Caulfield. A week later he ran third to Kudos and Pierrot at Willinmstown, and his only other three races' prior to his win in tho Steoplecliaso, were in the National Hurdle Race at Flemington, in which lie finished, sixth, the Doutta Galla Hurdle Race (fourth), and the Caulfield National Hurdle Race, in which he fell, this being the only occasion on which he has evQr come down. Although his experienco has been confined to hurdle races, he jumped the -fences in splendid style. Thoso who won their money on Airly little knew (says a writer in the Ago) what a narrow shove ho had of falling when tho hapless five mot disaster at the fence at tho seven furlong post, for Equity struck him as sho came down and knocked him on to his knees and noso, and all but unseated D. Alllan, - who, however, effected a marvellous recovery. The time for tho race-^-Bmin 10 sec— is fast, and has only been improved upon on two occasions — in 1903, when My Mibtako took only Bmiu 7i}sco (the record for the race), and in 1901, when Arcadia won in Bmin 9sec. Advices from Australia state that Murmur has been backed in Victoria, New South Wales,. Western Australia, and elsewhere for* the Caulfield Cup, at prices ranging from 100 to 1 to 100 to 4. A very substantial sum — approximately ' £8000 — has been secured, and most of it at 100 to 1 and 100 to 2. Murmur, who. lniH only 6.12 in tho Caulfield Cup, is a five-year-old chestnut gelding by Arsenal, from Millstroam. Ho won the Balaclava Stakes at Caulfield recently^ ■ News oomes from Sydney of the death of the king of Australian trotting stallions, Van Clove. Two days before his death the horse appeared to be unwell, but next day secmca to be himself again. On tho following day (says a Sydneypaper) his owner, Mr. J. A. Buckland, as is his custom every morning when at home, visited Van Cleve, to "have a yarn" with him, for the old horse was as sensible as a Christian, and appeared »to understand his master. Van Cleve gave a deep sigh, and dropped dead. Ho was buried in tho "centre of the trotting track at Fine Ridge, and, doubtless, before long, wayfarers travelling in that direction will see a handsome headstone extolling tho'-virtues' and successes of the grand old horse underneath. Van Cleve was a remarkable horse, who stamped his stock unmistakably, for it did not matter whether his.mato was a thorughbrcd or a Clydesdale, the progeny came with quality and ityle. Ho was the sire' UQf'Fntz,'*the best trotter Australia has known. Fraulien* dam of Fritz, also threw to Van Cleve Franz, Dare, Vheir, and Rex, all good winners. Among many other winners "old Van" sired, Sunshine, Hush, Hark, Valiant, Val, Velox, and tho stout little Viva, who, in one of her races at Christchurch, New Zealand, paid 240 to lon the totalisator. The best of Van Cleve's progeny were sent to New Zea- ; land to race, as there was no opening in New 'South Wales for a trotter of decent class ; but, thanks to the totalisator, rich purses are put up in New Zealand, and trotting (thei#ifore tho breed of light harness horses) receives every encouragement. Sydney* bookmakers d<> not I take kindly to trottlrig'} th« sport does not thrivo nere, for promoters of racing or horse sport of any kind cannot see a profit in it without assistance from the mighty layer of very short odds.